Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal Since its 2012 release, Melody Prochet’s self-titled debut album as Melody’s Echo Chamber has quietly become a modern classic. This is partly due to producer Kevin Parker’s ascendence to the main stage with Lonerism ’s release that same year, but (aside from the music itself) due in large part to the mystery behind Prochet’s development. While she teased “Shirim” in 2014, it wasn’t until 2018, following a brain aneurysm and an unspecified accident that her follow-up Bon Voyage came out. On that record, Prochet cannily traded Parker in for Dungen, without sacrificing her maximalism. Although a great album in its own right, it failed to meet the lofty expectation of her debut and Prochet waited another four years before finding her footing once more. Emotional Eternal is about as restrained as you can imagine Prochet. Sure, the arrangements are still huge and encompassing, like on the swelling “Where the Water Clears the Illusion”, but these ef...
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